Gesine Danckwart

“Gesine Danckwart’s text, which has been performed for the first time in Jena as a co-production of the local Theaterhaus and the TIF, the Sophiensaele Berlin and the Thalia Theater Hamburg, consists of monologues, which sometimes emerge from the internal, sometimes nearly becoming dialogues, but ceasing in the decisive moment out of fear of disappointment of their carriers. Between the chairs, the workplace-islands in the dabbling sea of time, there is lots of space for associations, also for exhausted dynamics between silence sounding pensively, hectic bustle and hysterical tantrums. Tristesse hides in turns between frustration and small victories. But it lurks in the heads – the mind is blocked, is chafed by banalities.
It hasn’t been about the daily bread in the original sense of the word for a long time. Five lonely dayshifts, day stories, are written by the struggle for self-worth and success, against the insight in the absurdity of the performed services and one’s own existence.” (Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten)